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Littleguru wrote:- Why isn't it possible to force the GC to do a collect. I mean GC.Collect() just signalizes that a collect is required, but the GC could decide to do not. Why has this been implemented in that way?

If this is indeed true, can't we have a GC.Collect(bool meanIt); ?

Probably because the GC knows more about current memory than the developer does 99% of the time. Forcing a GC when there are only a few dozen objects that need cleaning up is a bad idea. GC collection is a high overhead operation and calling it arbitrarily
is bad practice nearly all of the time.

I don't agree. The end-result for a GC.Collect is ALWAYS a less fragmented memory space. So there must be a penalty if they don't want us to do this all the time.

I'm guessing that penalty is the runtime becomes unresponsive for a while. In a game, you'd do anything not to have the GC runs its Collect routine in the middle of a game, and if you could, you should minimize that chance when it's OK to run at a lower framerate,
say, the user is shopping for a new sword with his loot.

Now, the crazy desktop app programmer who thinks he knows better by running GC.Collect everytime the user click on a button will be punished by having his app run like crap --- but at least that's a positive feedback for him to remove that GC.Collect.

If you can't deterministically run GC.Collect() as a game programmer, you're punished by a run-time that think it knows better.